A Perfect Statement about the Balance of Power
by Bookworm
As I’ve mentioned before, almost without exception, my “real me” facebook friends are liberal. This is true both for the friends I trace back to my school years and for the ones who are part of my daily life today.
Occasionally, I like to tweak my facebook friends a little, not with “in your face” confrontations, but simply by dropping into my updates news squiblets they might not know living, as they do, in their hermetically-sealed New York Times/NPR/New Yorker world. Recently, I linked to a news item about Coakley’s fundraiser in D.C., which was attended by Big Pharm and Health Insurance lobbyists. I suggested, politely, that this indicated that the cat was out of the bag about who the real beneficiaries of health care reform will be.
